Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 2 | I rode with them in the cab ( we tossed the oneliners back and forth ) — to our destination . |
| 3 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |
| 4 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 5 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 6 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ They were shooting in all directions but as I drove towards them on my tractor they started to run . |
| 8 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 9 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 10 | I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before . |
| 11 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 12 | Erm , and I worked for them for about twelve or thirteen years , I suppose , trolling around sout south of England . |
| 13 | I talked to them about adult things : the Duke of Wellington , and the important things that he was doing in London . |
| 14 | ‘ I talked to them about you , ’ he said slowly . |
| 15 | I talked to them during rehearsals in 1985 . |
| 16 | I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy . |
| 17 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
| 18 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 19 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 20 | Seve , Nick , Jose-Maria and Woosie are all superstars although Josie-Maria and Ian have n't proved it yet it terms of Majors and I looked upon them as bankers on the first two days . |
| 21 | I thought of them as my property . ’ |
| 22 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 23 | I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures . |
| 24 | Incidentally , on the question of the ‘ let ’ , despite the swift , unequivocal opposition voiced by Stefan Edberg , John McEnroe , Jim Courier , Steffi Graf and many more , the move has its influential supporters , including Ivan Lendl , Arthur Ashe , every umpire and Wimbledon referee Alan Mills when I spoke to them in Florida . |
| 25 | She loves those lacy things you know by and do you remember I I bought for them for Christmas I bought her a tissue box with that beautiful lace cover ? |
| 26 | I smiled at them in friendly fashion . |
| 27 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 28 | Dad was the coachsmith , a highly skilled trade and in the eyes of his contemporaries ( as I learned from them in later life ) he was an excellent craftsman . |
| 29 | I do n't like the idea of Ventolin this is what I said to them at the hospital that I ca n't , cos I 'm not on |
| 30 | Well I said to them before the game ‘ you know , people are saying can we make the players , can you win ten out of twelve ? ’ . |